Yesterday, members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System had the chance to participate in a call with Paul Sloane, international best selling author and expert in both leadership and lateral thinking (here’s his website). Paul shared a string of fabulous ideas and techniques to help everyone be more effective at both problem solving and innovation. [...]
Balloon flight, shot with an HD HERO camera from GoPro. from Francois Brahic on Vimeo. I saw this video yesterday and I couldn’t quite get it out of my mind. Not because I was fascinated by the technology, thought it is pretty cool. My fascination, as it often does, turned to the leadership lessons “hidden” [...]
This has happened to you. You (or your team) have identified a problem and generated some great ideas to solve it. Or perhaps there isn’t a “problem” but a great idea arrives for a new product, service or approach. Either way the idea, no matter how exciting, is nearly worthless unless action is taken to [...]
This is the final (for now any way) post in a loose series about the important of place, location and work environment and how it connects with our values, and ultimately how the intersection of these things relates to productivity. If you missed any of the others, or to provide a context for these thoughts, [...]
Shinichi Suzuki, the Japanese violinist and teacher responsible for the Suzuki method of teaching young violinists once said, “Man is a child of his environment.” This quotation crossed my mind as I stood outside the boyhood home of Elvis Presley in Tupelo, Mississippi last week. He lived in this two room house with his parents until [...]
Personal development. Professional development. Leadership development. Regardless of which words you use, chances are as the New Year begins, you are thinking about some sort of development; some sort of approach to creating change, growth and advancement in your life. As you think about our world today, the good news is that you have lots [...]
Since experts say we all are truly complex bundles of energy, it makes sense to think about how we can manage, use and increase the amount of energy in our bodies and minds. Because when we are better energy managers, we can create better results in all areas of our lives. The topic of personal [...]
John Hunt in his new book, The Art of the Idea and How it Can Change Your Life, says: “Expediency wins so often because the obvious is overlooked. If a new idea is worth anything, it should make everyone a little nervous. It will be tougher to sell. But these are all good signs.” In [...]
In my most recent issue of our email newsletter Powerquotes , I shared this quotation from the legendary management thinker Peter Drucker. People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.There is a tremendous two fold leadership lesson here [...]
For those of you that follow or have found me here on this blog, you may not realize that I write more than is just here. I’ve been writing another blog, Remarkable Learning With Kevin Eikenberry, for over 5 years. what I haven’t done a very good job of is sharing that content between these [...]